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Africa is young in a way that reshapes every economic conversation on the continent. In many countries, the average citizen is still in their teens or early twenties. That sounds like a demographic gift, and it can be, but only when an economy can turn youthful energy into livelihoods, enterprise, and rising productivity. If it cannot, the same force that should drive growth becomes a pressure point felt in cities, villages, border posts, classrooms, transport ranks, and fa

There is a particular kind of optimism you feel when you drive toward a new bridge before dawn. The road is still quiet. A few traders are setting up by the shoulder, taxis are beginning to swarm, and the concrete ahead looks like a promise made visible. Across Africa, that promise has often been tied to public-private partnerships, those carefully negotiated deals where governments and private firms try to split the burden of building what countries urgently need, roads, p

Election season in Africa has a smell to it. Dust on campaign roads. Fresh paint on party offices. Loudspeakers tied to old pickups. Security convoys pushing through market streets. Radio hosts stretching interviews long past the scheduled slot because listeners keep calling in. You can feel the country talking to itself. That conversation is never only about who wins. It is also about whether the state can keep promises, whether contracts will be honored, whether a farm